For those of you not very familiar with the BBC, every Briton who owns and uses a television is required to pay a licensing fee, much of which goes to funding the operations of the Beeb.  The BBC and the British Council are enormously influential the world over, and the Beeb is also notoriously anti-Semitic, though they’d make the mitigating distinction of being anti-Zionist.  In this wonderful post, Peter Glover

and posing for the Pirelli 2007 Calendar. So . . . would you hit it?

h/t Melanie Phillips, who, unfortunately, can’t provide the link because the article’s not accessible (without payment?), but cites Carolyn Glick in the Jerusalem Post: In response to the Times story an international security Web site run by Ray Robinson published a translation of a story that ran on the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah’s Web site on September 25. Citing European intelligence sources, the Al-Seyyassah report claims that in late 2004

Hassan: [Reading from a laptop] Mahmoud, listen to this: JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. That’s wild! Mahmoud: Hassan, I can’t believe that Reuters— and you—fall for the propaganda of the Zionist entity!  Now that we have rearmed, we will resume

Regarding the death of Milton Friedman, and with articles linking to a WSJ post, Tailrank heads the link-up A man with silly views passes on UPDATE: Frank Scary Evil Monkey at IMAO is threatening to eat our eyeballs. I think it’s important not to give into this threat.  It will only embolden Scary Evil Monkey, not appease him.  I, for one, am willing to risk my eyeballs to take a

Giuliani assembles high-powered donors Brilliant!  No word on when this will become available as a HeathKit.

Tomb of Aztec emperor may lie in Mexico Carvings on the stone show Tlaltecuhtli, an Aztec god was so fearsome the Aztecs normally buried her depictions face-down in the earth Not safe for eyes!

Stars fly in for Cruise wedding The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe. A brief surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 18. In Europe, that corresponds to early Sunday morning, Nov. 19 at 4:45 GMT. The outburst could last up to two hours. At the peak, people in these favorable

I don’t get the big deal. I mean, O.J. is innocent. Who cares if he makes a buck? His reputation was ruined, ruined! for a crime he didn’t commit. That’s why I’m not worried about the Duke Rape Case, either. I trust the United States justice system–especially District Attorneys. Oh, and that dude with nuclear plans in his suitcase and a bunch of money? It’s a frame-up. I’m glad that